I parked on Bristol Avenue, near Echo and Riverdale and joined the growing crowd on Echo. We could hear the three-minute and one-minute warning sirens and then the countdown of the last few seconds. After zero there was a pause and then a series of booms, kind of like someone taking slapshots at the board in a hockey rink, without any visible effect on the part of the stadium we could see.

After a few more booms the east end kind of folded up and dropped into the growing cloud of dust.